UnitedHealth Group’s UNH Optum Rx recently announced a major step toward modernizing pharmacy payments, a decision that could ...

The massive PBM is pivoting to a cost-based reimbursement model, which it says will reduce variation in how pharmacies are paid. Pharmacy groups say that depends on the specifics of Optum Rx’s plan.

Optum Rx is shifting its payment models to better meet the needs of pharmacies and consumers, the pharmacy benefit manager ...

Optum — which is UnitedHealth Group’s division that controls one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers — is moving to improve access and pricing for prescription drugs by cutting some ...

The PBM also announced that it will make the pharmacy experience simpler for consumers with chronic conditions by eliminating ...

The massive pharmacy benefit manager plans to stop requiring coverage authorizations for roughly 80 drugs used to treat ...

Optum Rx, the pharmacy benefit manager under UnitedHealth Group, is set to eliminate prior authorization requirements for ...

Optum Rx's new cost-based program uses an internal algorithm that leverages multiple available industry data sources, such as ...

UnitedHealth Group's pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, said on Wednesday it would ease requirements to get insurance ...

Optum Rx will increase reimbursements to pharmacies for brand-name drugs and cut them for generics.  Optum Rx said the new ...

Optum Rx announced on Wednesday that it will eliminate up to 25% of reauthorizations, initially focusing on 80 drugs. | Optum ...

Optum Rx is cutting prior authorizations on 80 drugs and updating payment models to improve reimbursements, benefiting ...